Leelah Alcorn’s last words, making her suicide an appeal for Transgender people to be “treated like humans” and to “fix society” if her death is to “mean something,” were stunning.
Author: Suzanne Rose
Letter from Mexico: Guerrero in a national focus
By putting their bodies between the army and the community police, by accepting and sheltering the latter in their town, the community of Petaquillas put their ideas into the struggle as well: the right to autonomy and self-government.
King March transformed
The annual Martin Luther King march here on Jan. 19 was changed after Michael Brown, the unarmed Black teenager, was shot dead by the police in Ferguson, Mo., under circumstances that some called an outright murder.
Stop Israeli settlements
We protested RE/MAX involvement in Israeli settlements that have displaced thousands of Palestinian families in direct violation of international law.
HandicapThis, March-April 2015
March 7, 2015Several hundred people blocked streets; Women with disabilities dumped into institutions; Judge hits mentally disabled man.
Budget cuts are death sentences!
Rauner’s $1.5 billion Medicaid cuts will have a devastating impact on those who depend on this program for their healthcare. “Some people will die from these cuts,” a woman at the rally said.